One cannot make up stories; one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already heard.

To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice.

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Normal is absolutely my least favorite word.

Nostalgia is a dangerous emotion, both because it is powerless to act in the real world, and because it glides so easily into hatred and resentment against those who have taken our Eden from us.

That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.

I don't know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, then together, that's much better.

The sign of a good marriage is that everything is debatable and challenged; nothing is turned into law or policy. The rules, if any, are known only to the two players, who seek no public trophies.

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

The compulsion to find a lover and husband in a single person has doomed more women to misery than any other illusion.

Most full lives are filled with empty gestures.

Why do only the awful things become fads? I thought. Eye-rolling and Barbie and bread pudding. Why never chocolate cheesecake or thinking for yourself?

I started in a research lab for TV cameras, then I worked at a tape duplication facility. That was the first introduction for me to recorded music and hi-fi.

Every local church has a leader but it seems so few local churches are being led.

True art is but the anti-type of nature; the embodiment of discovered beauty in utility.

For each man there awaits... a particular image capable of annihilating the entire universe.

A pitcher never gets me out. I get myself out. That's no disrespect to the pitcher, but there should be no excuse for failure. You can't have an excuse to fail.

Later our dreams begin catching fire around the edges, they burn like paper, we wake with our hands full of ash.

Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice.

Republican primary voters, whether they're close primaries or open, are voting for anybody but candidates attached to the Republican establishment.

No person ever ended his eyesight by looking on the bright side.